Department of Political Science, Queens College

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University


Contact:
Email:  mkrasner@sover.net
Phone: (718) 997-5489
Office: 200N Powdermaker Hall


Biography:
Michael A. Krasner has taught political science since 1970 at Queens College; he is co-director of the Taft Institute for Government, an independent not-for-profit organization that promotes political participation.  Professor Krasner’s articles grass roots politics and social movements have appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, Education and Urban Society, New German Critique, Social Policy, New York Affairs, and Urban Education.  Since 1996 Professor Krasner has worked with the teachers of Townsend Harris High School and others to develop and refine a uniquely rigorous, ambitious, and engaging election simulation model, which has been successively adapted to presidential elections, New York City mayoral elections, New York State gubernatorial, senatorial, and legislative elections, and presidential primaries.  Working with Professor Francois Pierre Louis, Professor Krasner has developed a program of community leadership and citizenship training that has since 2002 trained activists from new immigrant, minority, and low income communities in New York City.  The Hazen Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and New York Community Trust have supported this program with generous grants.  At Queens College, Professor Krasner teaches courses on Politics and Media, on presidential, gubernatorial, and mayoral elections, and on Film and Politics, in addition to coordinating the Political Science Department’s internship program.  The recipient of a Fulbright Exchange Professorship to the University of Aarhus in Denmark in 1983-84,  Professor Krasner also taught there as an visiting professor and researcher in 1985-86.  In 1994 he was a visiting professor at the University of Paris VIII,  (St. Denis).

Courses offered:
American Politics and Government (PSCI 101), New York City Internship (PSCI 292W), Politics and the Media (PSCI 220).